Nine family centers around the city applied for funding next year. Seven made the cut. The Cascade People’s Center was not one of them. And that’s got some people in the old Cascade neighborhood — also known as South Lake Union — wondering if the city is leaving them behind. …

If you drove home Friday afternoon and ran into a blob of bikes so big it stopped traffic, you were a witness to one of Seattle’s most delightfully reckless monthly rituals: the protest/celebration known as Critical Mass. …

New FCC regulations are likely to make such searches easier. The rules require wireless carriers to pinpoint a caller’s location within 50 to 300 meters depending on the technology, by Sept. 11, 2012. …